The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root ...

Horrendous images of the emaciated figures of the living and the dead as they were brought to the surface at Stilfontein show the failure of Operation Vala Umgodi ...

A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

The Sunday Mail Amb Hamadziripi Tanyaradzwa Rusike AT LEAST 20 Zimbabwean nationals lost their lives after being trapped in ...

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

Fugitive zama zama boss James Neo Tshoaeli, commonly known as ‘Tiger’, may have bribed cops with gold and cash to escape. Commonly known as ‘Tiger’, Tshoaeli resurfaced from shaft 11 and ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

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In my observation, violence around the abandoned mines is mainly committed by gangs and their collaborators, who also coerce zama zamas in their underground labors, extracting from them the gold they ...

a notorious zama zama ringleader known as “Tiger,” has ignited a major investigation into alleged police corruption in Stilfontein. Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national, was rescued from the abandoned ...

has refuted claims that illegal miners rescued from a Stilfontein gold mine were not receiving adequate healthcare. SAPS national Spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe made the statement following the ...